Tagged With "Opportunity Youth"
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Durbin, Capito, colleagues introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to address childhood trauma [Office of Senator Durbin of IL]
The following is a press release issued by the office of U.S. Senator Durbin (D-IL) on Monday, June 10, announcing the introduction of bipartisan bicameral legislation that builds on last year’s opioid legislation SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act and recommendations from a recent GAO report. A link to the bill and other information will be provided as soon as possible. In the meantime, an earlier draft of the bill and a section by section are attached to this post. For Immediate...
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Essentials for Childhood Washington State Fact Sheet, March 2017
Attached below is an updated Fact Sheet for Essential for Childhood in Washington State.
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Event - Mindfulness, Trauma, and Interpersonal Healing in Education
Thanks to Delena Meyer for sharing this on Facebook. Peace in Schools Presents Mindfulness, Trauma, and Interpersonal Healing in Education Sunday, January 12, 2020 in Portland, Oregon A conversation with Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Sará King & Caverly Morgan with moderation and research presentation by Gia Naranjo-Rivera "We invite you to join national experts Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Sará King, and Caverly Morgan in Beloved Community for an inspiring panel discussion, community conversation, and...
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Family Support Center of South Sound set to Launch Camp HOPE Washington [Thurston Talk]
On April 20 the Family Support Center of South Sound celebrated the launching of Washington State’s first Camp HOPE at the Governor’s Mansion with community members, elected officials, and advocates for children and youth in the South Sound community . Camp HOPE is an evidence based camping and mentoring program for children and youth who have witnessed domestic violence and experienced trauma and the Family Support Center was selected to develop Washington’s first program. Camp HOPE...
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Federal funding opportunity primary prevention of abuse and neglect
The purpose of this FOA from the federal Administration on Children, Youth and Families - Children's Bureau is to fund cooperative agreements that support the development, implementation, and evaluation of primary prevention strategies to improve the safety, stability, and well-being of all families through a continuum of community-based services and supports. During the project period, grantees will address site-specific barriers and mobilize communities to prevent child maltreatment,...
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Free Online Hope Forum - Kids at Hope
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:00pm Eastern Time 1:00pm Central Time 12:00pm Mountain Time 11:00am Pacific Time (AZ) To register, click here . Rick Miller Founder of Kids at Hope and Professor of Practice and Clinical Director at Arizona State University’s Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of HOPE will be joined by very special guests for a series of weekly Online HOPE Forums exploring the soul, science and practice of HOPE during times of uncertainty. Joining Rick for the first of...
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Funding Announcement: SAMHSA Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (Short Title: ReCAST Program)
Award Information Funding Mechanism: Grant Anticipated Total Available Funding: $2,500,000 Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 2 awards Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000 per year Length of Project: Up to 5 years Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No Eligibility: Eligible applicants are local municipalities (e.g., counties, cities, and local governments) in partnership with community-based organizations that have faced civil unrest within the past 24 months from the posting of this FOA.
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Governor Newsom announces Nadine Burke Harris to be CA's first-ever surgeon general
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a national leader in pediatric medicine, to serve as California’s first-ever Surgeon General. There is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community around early warning signs and childhood determinants of serious health outcomes. As California's Surgeon General, Dr. Burke Harris will urge policymakers at every level of government and leaders across the state to consider the social determinants of health,...
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HCA is looking for community partners to sponsor and host Trauma Informed Approach trainings
Message from Diana Cockrell, Children's Behavioral Health & Substance Use Disorder Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA): Imagine a world where we interact with every life we meet as if we knew their story of hardship and trial…and engaged with them from that knowledge…Welcome to trauma informed approach. Trauma informed partners, HCA’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) currently has the opportunity, through...
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Resource List - Self-Care
Self-care is a key element of a trauma-informed approach, at individual, organization, and community levels. This internet resource list includes links to introductions to ACEs and the ACE Study, self-care, secondary trauma and mindfulness. Self-Care - General Self-Care Starter Kit, School of Social Work, University of Buffalo http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/...are-starter-kit.html Relaxation Tool Kit, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center...
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Resource List - Trauma Informed Approaches and Autism Spectrum and Other Developmental Disabilities
Resources for individuals, organizations, and communities moving along trauma and hope-informed pathways in order to: Prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Promote resilience and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Promote equity and racial justice. Prevent substance abuse and promote mental health. … so that all children, youth, families and communities have equal opportunity for educational success, economic stability, health, and well-being.
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Resource List - Trauma Informed Pathway
This resource list is based on a pathway suggested by some local community leaders: LEARN about Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACEs and Resilience (NEAR) and how a history of trauma can impact individuals. DISCUSS how a history of trauma impacts service delivery. IMPLEMENT policies and procedures that support people with a history of trauma and the staff who work with them. DEVELOP organizational and community culture that embeds trauma-informed and restorative practice. It includes information...
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Resource Lists
I've put together a set of ACEs to Flourishing Resource Lists. They include internet (and some print) resources for individuals, organizations, and communities moving along trauma and hope-informed pathways in order to: Prevent and mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Promote resilience and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Prevent substance abuse and promote mental health. Move toward hope and flourishing individuals, families and communities Resource List...
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Screening of "Resilience" - Kamiak High School, Mukilteo WA [mukilteowa.gov]
“Resilience” Documentary at Kamiak High School April 26 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Free Watch the new documentary “Resilience”: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope” in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) at Kamiak High School on April 26. This documentary chronicles the promising beginnings of a national movement to prevent childhood trauma, address toxic stress, and greatly improve the health of future generations. This is the much awaited follow-up to “Paper Tigers”, a documentary about...
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Sequim Mayor and City Council Proclamation of October as Resiliency Month
PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, there is compelling scientific evidence of a correlation between negative childhood experiences known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) or “toxic stress”, and WHEREAS, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) include such experiences as physical, sexual, or verbal abuse, physical and emotional neglect, witnessing domestic violence, losing a parent to separation or divorce or having a family member who is: experiencing mental health issues, struggling with substance...
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Service Clubs in the ACE and Resilience Movement: Reaching Out with Facts and Stories
Before Claire Ranit spoke to her local Rotary Club about ACEs science, she needed to know if her listeners would be elephants or riders.
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Sound Discipline 2020 Trauma-Informed Workshops
We've posted several workshops in January. Join us or share this information - thank you! Positive Discipline in the Classroom - Jan 14 - Feb 11 in Renton or Jan 15 - Mar 4 in Kent Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way - Jan 23-25 in Seattle Building Resiliency 1: Strategies for Engaging Youth Exposed to Trauma Jan 16 in Seattle. Questions? Please email mary@sounddiscipline.org
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Specialized Foster Homes Needed for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children in King County
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Become a foster parent! King County is starting a new and innovative program—the Puget Sound CSEC Foster Care Pilot Program—to serve these youth! CAREGIVERS WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING TRAINING AND SUPPORT: Extensive training and support—both upfront and ongoing Access to a CSEC social work expert for consultation services In home support services and respite care Ongoing community building/recreational activities for families and children INTERESTED IN LEARNING...
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Substance-abuse doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs.
He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”. He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like bleeding is a normal response to being stabbed. He says: The solution to changing the illegal or unhealthy ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior of opioid addiction is to address a person’s adverse childhood...
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Tapping a Troubled Neighborhood’s Inner Strength [NYTimes.com]
[First of three articles] Ten years ago, Patsy Hite, 70, rarely left her home at night. “I heard a lot of sirens so I always kept to myself,” she said. Hite lives in the Highlands, a 40-block section in Longview, a city in Cowlitz County in southwestern Washington. The Highlands is home to about 5,000 residents. The neighborhood is adjacent to an industrial district, and was hit hard by the loss of jobs in the timber and manufacturing industries. Long-term unemployment has brought blight,...
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The Center for Youth Wellness Launches Childhood Adversity Screening Program with Leading North Carolina Health Systems [PR Newswire]
Charlotte pilot program with Atrium Health and Novant Health supports state's goal to address social, economic and environmental health to improve child and family health outcomes The Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) announced it is partnering with two leading U.S. health systems in the Southeast to launch a screening program on childhood adversity. CYW's National Pediatric Practice Community (NPPC) has done on-site training at the headquarters of Atrium Health and Novant Health in Charlotte,...
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Three decades in, Toni Lodge continues building community for future generations through the NATIVE Project [Islander]
M ore than 30 years ago , it was becoming increasingly clear to Toni Lodge and other concerned parents, neighbors and friends that someone needed to step in to help change the story for Native American kids in Spokane. "We just were tired of people saying Native kids have the most suicide, most dropouts, most everything," Lodge says. "We were like, 'OK, well we'll just figure out a way to be part of the solution.'" The group cobbled together $100, and someone donated a Ford Pinto to be...
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Trauma & Resiliency Summit in the Columbia River Gorge
Hello all! The Columbia River Gorge is hosting a Trauma & Resiliency Summit on October 20th & 21st, 2016 in The Dalles, OR. Registration is made free to attendees through MARC Grant funding. If you are in the area please join us! And please note that registration is only available prior to the event as we have a limited amount of space. Claire
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Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program (SAMHSA)
Click HERE to learn more. Description The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), are accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2020 Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program (Short Title: Native Connections). The purpose of this program is to prevent suicide and substance misuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)...
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Upcoming Hope Forums via Kids at Hope
Kids at Hope, in partnership with Arizona State University's Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of Hope, is keeping hope at the forefront of our minds with their Hope Forums - the next two coming up on April 1st and 8th! On April 1st, founder Rick Miller will be joined by: Special Guest: Erin Gruwell , an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of New York Times bestselling book, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used...
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Upcoming screening of Paper Tigers in Tacoma!
Tickets are still available to see the moving documentary, Paper Tigers! The movie will be shown on December 17th at 7:30pm at the Cinemark Point Ruston & XD. Click here to reserve your seat. Event Info Join us for a screening of an amazing documentary that captures insights about the hidden epidemic of childhood trauma plaguing our schools and communities. Watch how one school systematically tackled this very challenging problem by understanding [how] "trauma threatens brain...
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VYFS aims to create ‘trauma informed community’ [vashonbeachcomber.com]
With a grant from King County’s Best Starts for Kids, Vashon Youth & Family Services plans to help Vashon become a “trauma informed community” in an effort to improve the overall health and resilience of islanders. “With this program, we see a unique opportunity to create a culture shift,” Roderick McClain, VYFS’ grantwriter, said. “The ultimate goal is for individuals and organizations to be better equipped and organized to deal with those experiencing the effects of trauma.” The roots...
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WA State Funding Opportunity: for perinatal mental health community capacity building
Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), in collaboration with Perinatal Support Washington (PS-WA), is pleased to announce that funding is available for perinatal mental health community capacity building. We i nvite Requests for Application (RFAs) from Washington State organizations interested in collaborative efforts to increase community-wide awareness and develop resources to support perinatal mental health. The RFA form is available...
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WA Strengthening Families May June Newsletter 2019
Thank you to everyone who participated in April’s Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) month – from those who helped plant pinwheels at the capitol or at their home or work, to those who helped share our social media messages – it was a great month! Here are some highlights from this year’s events and displays. We started the month with our annual Pinwheel Planting at the Capitol Campus - helped once again by bikers from Bikers Against Child Abuse and the Junior League of Olympia, along with staff...
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Washington State Agency Involvement in ACEs-Related Work
Cross Agency Initiatives Essentials for Childhood: Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships & Environments for Children - Essentials for Childhood Washington State -- www.doh.wa.gov/efc - Essentials for Childhood - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/childmaltreatment/essentials/index.html Washington State Frontiers of Innovation - http://www.wafoi.org/ Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University – Frontiers of Innovation...
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Washington State Prevention Summit - Nov 5-6
Registration is Now Open! Washington State Prevention Summit Celebrating 35 Years! Click here to register. Registration deadline: September 20, 2019 Date : November 5 - 6, 2019 Location : Yakima Convention Center 10 N. 8th St. Yakima, WA 98901 About the Summit The goal of the Prevention Summit is to provide an enriching and culturally competent training and networking opportunity for youth, volunteers and professionals working toward the prevention of substance abuse, violence and other...
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Washington Weighs an End to Locking Kids Up for Truancy [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
As a teenager in foster care , Zack Zibrosky was detained eight times, five for running away from the same group home where some of the other kids had a history of aggressive behavior. Running away is considered a status offense, an activity that is prohibited only if you are a minor. In between trips to detention, Zibrosky spent time on the streets. School fell by the wayside amidst all that upheaval. “Kids who are going through this obviously have some type of turmoil or something in their...
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‘We are just destroying these kids’: The foster children growing up inside detention centers [Washington Post]
Photo credit and caption: Heard leaves the courtroom at the Boone County Courthouse in Madison. He hopes to train to be a tattoo artist. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Dec. 30, 2019 Though he's never been convicted of a crime, Geard Mitchell spent part of his childhood in a juvenile detention center, at times sleeping on cement floors under harsh fluorescent lights left on through the night during lockdowns. He attended high school by clicking through online courses and had “no one to...
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WEBINAR! ACE's and Resilience Learning Network: Creating Safe, Stable and Nurturing Relationships and Environment for All Kids
ACE's and Resilience Learning Network: Creating Safe, Stable and Nurturing Relationships and Environment for All Kids May 12th Noon to 1:00 pm. We are excited to announce Washington State Essentials for Childhood is launching a series of lunchtime webinar series. Series five webinar is: Connection Saves Lives: Whatcom Youth Wellbeing Presented by: Kristi Slette, M.Ed., Lisa Moulds, M.A., Danielle Humphreys, and Wil Henkel In Whatcom County, Whatcom Family & Community Network (WFCN),...
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Webinar Learning Series begins tomorrow: State Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Adversity, Wednesday, January 10, 10am PST (1:00 PM EST)
Reminder of tomorrow's ( Wednesday, January 10, 10am PST/1:00 PM EST) webinar on State Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Adversity Please join us for a three -part learning series hosted by the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity and ACEs Connection . We'll hear from states that are making great strides towards adopting trauma-informed policies and practices. Three-Part Learning Series: Webinar 1: Overview of State Level Efforts to Address Childhood Adversity and...
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Webinar Learning Series: State Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Adversity, January 10, 10am PST (1:00 PM EST)
Please join us for a three -part learning series hosted by the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity and ACEs Connection . We'll hear from states that are making great strides towards adopting trauma-informed policies and practices. Three-Part Learning Series: Webinar 1: Overview of State Level Efforts to Address Childhood Adversity and Highlights from Oregon, Tennessee, and Wisconsin Date: January 10th, 10AM PST (1:00 PM EST) Speakers: Elizabeth Prewitt, Policy Analyst, ACEs...
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Webinar Slides and Recording: The Human Impact of Climate Change
Recorded live November 13, 2019. Find the slides attached below. Speaker: Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW, LCSW, Executive Director and Co-founder, Trauma Resource Institute. Guest: Kelly Doty, MA, Strengthening Families Program Manager, Youth for Change Host: Carey Sipp, Southeast Community Facilitator, ACEs Connection. Climate change emergencies are real and the human toll during and in the aftermath impact children, teens and adults. This webinar will hear from Kelly Doty, a survivor, who lost...
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Wisconsin state agencies end year one of trauma-informed learning community; goal is to be first trauma-informed state
Here in California, many people think that it’s only liberal Democrats who have a corner on championing the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and putting it into practice. That might be because people who use ACEs science don’t expel or suspend students, even if they’re throwing chairs and hurling expletives at the teacher. They ask "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" as a frame when they create juvenile detention centers where kids don’t fight, reduce...
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Workshop April 6th - Building Resilience 2: Firmness Tools
Do your students over react to small things? Do they struggle to regulate emotion? Do they act younger than their age? Many students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school. In this workshop you will: Review and learn more of the brain science behind trauma informed practices. Learn several tools for setting clear and respectful limits while maintaining connections with youth. Practice the process of making effective agreements with youth. Location: The 2100...
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Workshop Oct 23rd - Building Resiliency 1: Strategies to Engage Youth Exposed to Trauma
Workshop Oct 23rd - Building Resiliency 1: Strategies to Engage Youth Exposed to Trauma Do the YOuth in your life over react to small things? Do they struggle to regulate emotion? Do they act younger than their age? Many children and students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school and in life. Learn: What trauma and insecure attachment do to growing brains. How to lead a classroom to benefit all students - including those exposed to trauma. How to teach youth...
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Building Community Resilience Infographic
Is anyone familiar with any counties in WA state that have filled in the BCR Infographic? Attached here for reference. Would be interested in filling it in for Tacoma-Pierce County area!
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